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Davidson, Donald Herbert - 1917–2003, American philosopher, b. Springfield, Mass., grad. Harvard (B.A., 1939; Ph.D., 1949). A student of W. V. Quine, Davidson emerged as one of the major figures in post–World War II analytic philosophy. His early work in the theory of decision-making was followed by that in which he argued that reasons can be the causes of human actions. Davidson


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    Essays on Actions and Events » Read Now

    by Donald Davidson. 304 pgs.

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    Problems of Rationality » Read Now

    by Donald Davidson. 280 pgs.

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    Truth, Language and History » Read Now

    by Donald Davidson. 350 pgs.

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    From Kant to Davidson: Philosophy and the Idea of the Transcendental (Chap. 12 "Davidson's Transcendental Argumentation") » Read Now

    by Jeff Malpas. 262 pgs.

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    'From Kant to Davidson' explores the notion of the transcendental at work in the ideas of philosophers ranging from those cited in the title to other notable contemporary philosophers of the twentieth-century.
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    Pragmatism: From Peirce to Davidson » Read Now

    by John P. Murphy, Richard P. Rorty. 152 pgs.

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    Radical Interpretation in Religion (Chap. 2 "Radical Interpretation and Pragmatism: Davidson, Rorty, and Brandom on Truth") » Read Now

    by Nancy K. Frankenberry. 231 pgs.

    Ten writers present radical interpretations of religious belief in the styles of Donald Davidson, Robert Brandom, Richard Rorty, and William James that explore cultural anthropology and cognitive science. They include critical appraisals of the history of religions as influenced by the Romantic...
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    Literary Theory after Davidson » Read Now

    by Reed Way Dasenbrock. 316 pgs.

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    Quine and Davidson on Language, Thought and Reality » Read Now

    by Hans-Johann Glock. 311 pgs.

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    W.V. Quine and Donald Davidson are among the leading thinkers of the twentieth century. Their influence on contemporary philosophy is second to none, and their impact in disciplines such as linguistics and psychology is strongly felt. Questioning some of their basic assumptions, this text includes...

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